Media Player Classic Home Cinema(MPC-HC) is a free audio and video player for Windows. The new Media Player Classic Home Cinema has Anti tearing option, Subtitle synchronisation, Support Vista 64bits and more, Additional video decoders and in particular H.264 and VC-1 with DXVA support (see specific section for details), Better support for Windows Vista, including a release for 64 bits platform, Support for EVR renderer, Bugs and vulnerability fixes.

Media Player Classic - BE (MPC-BE) is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666), contains additional features and bug fixes.

PotPlayer is a free advanced multimedia player. Plenty of features and rich customization. No need to install different codecs all the time when using the player. Enhanced H/w-Acceleration. Immersive Viewing Experience with 3D. Supports Various Subtitle Formats.
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Media Player Classic looks just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player), built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. No longer developed so use instead MPC-HC or MPC-BE.

Kantaris is a free and open source media player which plays almost all multimedia formats without the need for installing any separate codecs. Connects to an online subtitle database, finds subtitles that are a perfect fit to the played media. Plays RAR-archives without first extracting the media. Beautiful music visualizations.

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC can also convert, capture/record and be used as a server to stream video.
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Zoom Player is the most Powerful, Flexible and Customizable DVD and Media Player for the Windows PC platform. Using our powerful Smart Play technology, more image, audio and video media formats play with less hassle, increased stability and better performance. The proffesional/MAX versions costs from $40, see feature comparison.
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TotalMedia Theatre is your all-in-one media player for PCs. Whether playing Blu-ray and DVD discs, AVCHD, or high-definition files on local machines or videos on a UPnP server and online, the program has it covered. With an intuitive and innovative user interface design, excellent playback quality and performance, and industry-leading playback technology, TotalMedia Theatre 5 brings the premium movie experience to you. This product will be no longer maintained and updated.

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...

GOM Player is a free multimedia player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF and more. Users don't have to install codecs separately. GOM Player is capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play broken, locked or partially downloaded files.

MPlayer is a movie player for LINUX (runs on many other Unices, and non-x86 CPUs, like Windows, MAC...). It plays most DVD, VCD, MPEG, VOB, AVI, OGG/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files. Mencoder is a converter that supports many input video formats. Command line tools but several frontend/GUIs available like SMPlayer available. Mencoder is included in most mplayer.zip/7z releases.

Splash is a HD video player. Play all your High Definition AVCHD/H.264 camcorder clips and movies, incredibly fast, smooth, with no problems, no glitching. You don't need any additional codecs. Watch, timeshift and record high quality DVB-T television with pleasure. Easy navigation and fast channel zapping. Rediscover standard television with high quality and power saving image post-processing technologies, optimized to work with desktops, notebooks and netbooks.
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FF Player is a video player. The motivation to develop FF Player is that I was not satisfied with video players available. Most lack important features, some offer great features but have the features hidden deep inside their option menus and are generally hard to use. So I started developiong a small, easy-to-use DirectShow-based player that offers all features I need. Requires .NET Framework.

Corel WinDVD Pro 11 is an advanced 2D and Blu-ray 3D™ player software that supports Blu-ray 3D™, AVCHD™, DVD playback and all the latest video formats. With over 250 million copies sold, WinDVD is one of the world's most recognized products. The Pro version is stacked with features such as an integrated online movie search engine, 3D viewing technology, 2D to 3D conversion, HD upscaling, superior sound and more!
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The KMPlayer/KMP+ is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as DVD, AVI, MKV, MP4, FLV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters.
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BS.Player is a Windows player that plays back all kinds of media files, AVI, MPG, ASF, WMV, WAV, MP3..., and specialises in video and DivX playback. Now, you can finally enjoy the playback of HD DVD and AVCHD movies of the highest quality with minimal system requirements. BS.Player can playback any YouTube movie directly from the internet and save it to local disk. Pro version costs $40. Web installation.

Leawo Blu-ray Player software acts like hardware Blu-ray player to play Blu-ray discs, folders and ISO files on PC to enhance your Blu-ray movie experience. As a quality lossless Blu-ray player software program, it could help you easily play back the latest released Blu-ray discs without quality loss. It’s also a free DVD player to play back DVD discs/folders, an ISO player to directly play back ISO files, a free video player to play up to 1080P HD videos and a free audio player to play even DTS-5.1 audio in lossless quality. During playback, this professional Blu-ray player software allows you to select/load subtitles and adjust video and audio. It even provides detailed playback navigation to let you fully control media playback.

VSO Media Player is a free media player with DVD, Blu-ray and AVCHD support. Specially designed to be compatible with blu-ray files and folders. If reading a blu-ray disk from your optical drive a decryptor maybe needed such as DVDFab Passkey or AnyDVD. Supporting multi-angle + multi-version. Reads DVD, Blu-ray and AVCHD .ISO files. No Blu-ray menu support.
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Light Alloy - is a completely free, compact multimedia player. It supports all popular multimedia formats. Player is optimized for quick launch and minimum load of the system resources.
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DVDFab Media Player is a media player software. It not only plays Blu-ray & DVD discs and other video files in all formats, but also plays Blu-ray & DVD folders, ISO image files, both 2D or 3D. So, it brings absolutely the best audiovisual experiences for Windows users. To benefit all users, DVDFab Media Player offers lifetime free playback of Blu-ray & DVD ISO files, folders and other video files, and real Blu-ray & DVD discs free for 30 days. DVDFab Media Player is powered by XBMC.
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Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts. Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

MPCSTAR is a package of video player and many codecs. It contains a user-friendly player and carefully selected codecs to support various video formats. With MPCSTAR, you would be able to play all your movies downloaded from the internet. NOTE! If you install all the included codecs/decoders you might get problem with other video software on your computer.
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Bino is a free 3D video player. Support for stereoscopic 3D video, with a wide variety of input and output formats. Support for anaglyph glasses, multi-display video, e.g. for powerwalls, Virtual Reality installations and other multi-projector setups. Bino currently works on GNU/Linux systems, Mac OS X, and Windows.

JuceVLC is VLC with a simple MediaCenter-like fullscreen User Interface. Browse and watch movies from your couch with a wireless mouse. This is not mean to be a XBMC killer! It gives a Media Center feel to VLC while keeping the player as lightweight as possible.
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Stereoscopic Player is a versatile 3D movie player. It allows you to play stereo­scopic videos and DVDs (external decoder required) and also allows you to watch live video from a capture device. Since it is based on Direct­Show, it can handle almost any media format, for example AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF and MOV. Videos can be coded in several different stereo­scopic formats.
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